Nama : Alya El Fadiah

NPM : 1622600023
Genre Based Writing

How a Cancer is formed

General Statement :
What is cancer? It is actually a group of more than one hundred separate diseases. Most of us
are fear from cancer. It is reasonable because next to heart disease, cancer is the second
leading cause of death.
Sequenced of explanation :
Cancer cells come from normal cells because of mutations of DNA. Those mutations can
occur spontaneously. The mutations may be also induced by other factors such as: nuclear
and electromagnetic radiation, viruses, bacteria and fungi, parasites, heat, chemicals in the
air, water and food, mechanical cell-level injury, free radicals, evolution and ageing of DNA,
etc. All such factors can produce mutations that may start cancer.
Cancer cells are formed continuously in the organism. It is estimated that there are about
10,000 cancer cells at any given time in a healthy person. Why do some result in
macroscopic-level cancers and some do not? First, not all damaged cells can multiply and
many of them die quickly. Second, those which potentially divide and form cancer are
effectively destroyed by the mechanisms available to the immune system. Therefore cancer
develops if the immune system is not working properly or the amount of cells produced is too
great for the immune system to eliminate.